Neuroscience

Array ( [0] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 97872 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:19:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:19:11 [post_content] => Research Interests: My main research interest concerns the concept of behavioral inhibition in memory. Behavioral inhibition differs from inhibition at the level of the synapse. The existence of inhibition is in question. It seems logical given anecdotal evidence of unintended memories such as a painful breakup, a loved one who has passed away. Something in the environment may trigger the retrieval of this memory without conscious intent. Preventing these intrusive, unwanted memories from gaining access to our conscious memory or ridding ourselves of them if they do gain access is a task often assigned to the mechanism of inhibition. Researchers do not agree that a separate mechanism, inhibition, is necessary to explain how we select the relevant information from the irrelevant information. Results from several lines of research have been unable to demonstrate inhibition in situations designed to elicit it. However, there are other lines of research that demonstrate the need for inhibition. Researchers are currently investigating this discrepancy. Current projects include using psycholinguistic paradigms (relatedness decision task, sentence verification), as well as more traditional memory paradigms (word association, analogy completion), and retrieval-induced-forgetting along with the DRM paradigm.   Read More [post_title] => Kimberly Wear [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => kimberly-wear [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-01-20 09:13:20 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-01-20 14:13:20 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=97872 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 94389 [post_author] => 62 [post_date] => 2021-05-25 16:45:05 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-05-25 20:45:05 [post_content] => [post_title] => Michael Grider [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => dr-michael-grider [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-07-20 16:01:28 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-07-20 20:01:28 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94389 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 94356 [post_author] => 62 [post_date] => 2021-05-25 15:41:01 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-05-25 19:41:01 [post_content] => Research Interests: My main research interest focuses on identifying the psychosocial factors that contribute to a “failure to recover” after injury or illness. Specifically, I have focused on examining symptom exaggeration, performance validity, and malingering on measures of neuropsychological and psychological functioning in traumatic brain injury and chronic pain populations. Currently, my focus of research has moved toward looking at the specific psychological factors (e.g., somatization, anxiety, and depression) that contribute to persisting cognitive problems (e.g., working memory and processing speed) in these populations. In the future, I will continue to examine the relationship between psychosocial factors and chronic illness or disease.   Read More [post_title] => Kelly Curtis [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => dr-kelly-curtis [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-09-01 14:18:02 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-09-01 18:18:02 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94356 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 98118 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:23:19 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:23:19 [post_content] => Research Summary:   Substance Use Disorders Substance use disorders permeate our society and are among the most prominent leading health crises facing the nation. Today, we are in the midst of an opioid crisis that has strained the health care infrastructure and brought into sharp focus the need for more effective pharmacotherapies to treat substance use disorders. Investigating the neurobiology of addiction, craving and relapse is fundamental step for understanding the cause and consequences of this brain disease. To this end, our lab uses numerous techniques (analytical, biochemical and biological) and models (cell, rodent, monkey and human) to develop a more comprehensive knowledge of the disease process. Based on our studies, we are exploring the utility of compounds from botanical (kratom and ibogaine) and semi-synthetic sources to treat specific aspects of the addiction process.   Schizophrenia and Depression Schizophrenia and depression are serious mental health disease that affect approximately 1% and 3% of the world’s population, respectively. Currently available medications for treating these disorders are effective in some individuals for certain aspects of the diseases. The clinical complexity of schizophrenia and depression is paralleled by the complexity neurobiological, genetic and epigenetic contributions underlying these diseases. Utilizing human post-mortem brain tissue from world renowned human brain banks, non-human primate and rodent models we use biochemical and molecular approaches to understand the aberrant neurobiology associated with these diseases and the positive and negative implications of chronic antipsychotic and antidepressant medications on brain function.   Read More [post_title] => Scott Hemby [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => scott-hemby [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-09-01 16:35:24 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-09-01 20:35:24 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=98118 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 94500 [post_author] => 62 [post_date] => 2021-05-26 13:24:09 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-05-26 17:24:09 [post_content] => Google Scholar Profile [post_title] => Keir Fogarty [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => dr-keir-fogarty [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-08-13 14:08:49 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-08-13 18:08:49 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94500 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [5] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 99090 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:07:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:07:11 [post_content] => [post_title] => Angela Bauer [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => angela-bauer [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-01-07 16:02:35 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-01-07 21:02:35 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=99090 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) )